Customer Reviews

The Lion King

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3 star:		(2)
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I think that this Lion King Game is great. It takes a lot of work to get of the second level but if you try you'll get it. I think every one should have this game.

Lion King is an ok Game Gear Game, That you can beat in about 1hour. It has some nice jumpNrun levels that don't last long enough. It is one of three good Disney movie games,Aladdin and Jungle Book being the others. Aladdin is the best one because it is original and doesn't follow the Genesis version. Lion King is a direct clone of the genesis one and is a little fun. I'd give 3 stars

... but in around half of your playing time the game feels like a not-so-well-thought-out copy of the Genesis version with platforms scattered around that aren't necessarily relevant to the level design. Perhaps the reason the level design in some levels isn't that good is because the apparently decided it would attract people if they added a sonic element to it; Simba moves about twice as fast as in the Genesis version. And since he moves faster, the level has to be bigger, and the developers apparently were too lazy to think up a good level design for a big level. The first level is especially bad, I think.

The second level gets better, though, and although the level design drops somewhat in the 3rd and 4th levels (It's possible to get through the 4th level in 30seconds!), it gets more interesting in the 5th (they had to think up something original for the stampede level because the Genesis version of the level would have been very hard to copy on the Game Gear).

The game has 10 levels in all, and each one is on the same subject as the one in the Genesis version.

Almost all the bosses are also the same.

All in all, this is a slightly-higher-than-average game that I think could have been a lot better if the developers didn't try copy the levels of the Genesis version but took their own take on the game (like the developers of the Game Gear version of Alladin did).

Lion King is a great game with fairly easy levels. You start out in the easy level, Pridelands, then move through more difficult levels like, The Mane Event, Elephant Graveyard, Stampede (Hardest), Exile, Hakuna Matata, Simba's Destiny, Be Prepared!, Hyena Lairs, then the last one, Battle Against Scar. This cool game is a must have!